How to Restart Ubuntu via Terminal

Problem: I'm running my websites on a Digital Ocean droplet and every time I remote in via ssh, it says that I need to restart Ubuntu in order to complete an update. How do I restart Ubuntu?

Solution: Simple, remote into your machine and type:

sudo shutdown -r now

• sudo - tells terminal you want to run with admin permissions
• shutdown - this is what we're trying to accomplish
• -r - this flag tells Ubuntu we want it to restart after shutdown
• now - when we want the execution to occur

Sources:

• "How to reboot droplet through the command line / restart apache server" (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-reboot-droplet-through-the-command-line-restart-apache-server)